LA Times Homicide Maps : Google Maps Mashup

The LA Times has gone live with a new Google Maps Mashup which shows where homicides have occurred throughout the Los Angeles area. The Homicide Map mashup is a bit dark, but useful in terms of making sure neighborhoods are safe and what kind of homicides occurred (gunshots vs. blunt force vs. killed by police). [Via ScreenWerk] … [Read more...]

The LA Times has gone live with a new Google Maps Mashup which shows where homicides have occurred throughout the Los Angeles area. The Homicide Map mashup is a bit dark, but useful in terms of making sure neighborhoods are safe and what kind of homicides occurred (gunshots vs. blunt force vs. killed by police). [...]

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Fox News Caught Sabotaging Wikipedia Entries

Arthur Bergman at O’Reilly Radar has the lowdown on some changes Fox News has been making to the Wikipedia entries of their critics and competition (like Al Franken) which were traced back to a Fox News IP address. Here is an example of an entry which was changed from: The lawsuit focused a great deal [...]

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Export Google AdWords Reports to Google Spreadsheets

Another reason for Google users to hardly ever open Microsoft Office again has sprung up as Google AdWords is now offering advertisers the option of exporting Adwords reports into Google Spreadsheets. Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable stumbled upon this in his AdWords account and says Just go to your reports and click on the [...]

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Search Engine Strategies San Jose 2007 – Parties Update

There are only a few days left until the SES Conference and Expo will be held again at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California. The event starts on Monday August 20, 2007 and ends on Thursday August 23, 2007. This years keynote speakers are Jim Lanzone, CEO of Ask.com (Tuesday keynote) and [...]

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SES San Jose Womens Luncheon

For those members of the search marketing community who happen to be of the female variety (and you know who you are!), Liana Evans is holding her traditional SES Women’s Luncheon on Monday August 20th at The Grill on the Alley, located next to the Fairmont Hotel.

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Screenshots of Google Health

Philipp Lensenn at Google Blogoscoped has one of the biggest Google scoops in a long while, screenshots of the Google Health information storage program (in prototype form). Code named Weaver, Google Health aims to produce a digital base for medical records which can be shared among patient doctors and patients that includes such information as [...]

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Social People-Search Site PeekYou Gets a Boost

Social peeking site PeekYou gets even better with the release of its beta 2.0 version. The newly refurbished people-search engine introduces new features such as advanced set of tools, cleaner design, speedy profile editing, and a user-friendly navigation experience. To give you a brief background about PeekYou and what it does, the official FAQ states: [...]

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Google to Offer Embedded Maps for Webmasters

A simplified way to “embed” Google Maps is apparently coming from Google next week, according to this story, in the Sydney Morning Herald: Google will shortly roll-out a new feature on its mapping service that will allow users to easily embed maps directly into web pages. The feature, which operates much in the same as [...]

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Ask.com Adds Health Smart Answers

Ask.com has introduced new Health Smart Answers which help searchers find trusted health and medical information faster. Smart Answers are special search results placed at the top of the results page that provide editorially-selected information as well as quick links to authoritative content (unlike the user generated and governered content provided by sites like Wikipedia [...]

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Malware Reviews from Google Webmaster Tools

Google has streamlined the auditing of sites which have cleaned up or addressed malware concerns, after those sites were labeled by Google Search or via a Webmaster Tools message that such sites were affected by, or distribute malware. Once a site has cleaned up its act, it can then submit a request for an audit [...]

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